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“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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Plagueworks
March 2020, West Seattle
You can stand at the dock
now and not be bothered much
by boats. Looking hard you can see it –
the road worn into the water where
the flat-bottomed ferries once
went up and down all day.
The islands want none of us
and won’t come. Vashon squats
with its aliens in a patch-tattered
yurt that shrouds the shore in
smoke-yellow walls – a bit put off
by the virus across the bay.
Bainbridge and Whidbey salute the San Juans
who can finally keep the orcas and grays to themselves.
From shore to shore the semaphore
warns that plagues are made on the
mainland – they’d have us keep our fevers
here. The few running boats ride high
above the jellyfish. Two tired men
throw gray ropes to an empty pier.
– Andy Havens
A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
Being that @realDonaldTrump designated today as #NationalDayOfPrayer, let us ALL pray for President Trump, that he may defeat the radical left and guide our Country through this #COVIDー19 crisis.
In Jesus name,
Amen. pic.twitter.com/aSNkQDihXS
— Deplorable Pet Lover⭐️⭐️⭐️ TEXT TRUMP 88022 🐾🇺🇸 (@petluvers4Trump) March 15, 2020
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- Secret Passages: Navigating the Uncharted March 29, 2020
- Bill Whittle: The CoronaSphere Lounge Episode 8: The Most Dangerous News March 29, 2020
- In these trying (often boring) times don’t forget to “Stay the F*ck at Home” March 28, 2020
- Bob Dylan’s Murder Most Foul: The Words of the Prophet Are Written on the Internet Walls March 28, 2020
- Something Wonderful: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Great Neil Diamond. Still Standing. March 27, 2020
- Bill Whittle: The CoronaSphere Lounge Episode 7: The War on Optimism March 27, 2020
- SportEating: Things to Do When In Your Shelter Place March 27, 2020
- How We Live Now 2 March 27, 2020
- Boomer Ballads: Lonesome Town March 26, 2020
- How We Live Now: Finding My Great White Whale in a Plague Year March 26, 2020
- My current state of social distancing March 25, 2020
- TIME OUT! “Your Pie Sir”: The All-American Origin of the Pie Fight March 25, 2020
- What Biden Is Now:”Meantime life outside goes on all around you…” March 25, 2020
- Innovators Among Us: There Are Americans Who Can Beat This Thing March 25, 2020
- Public Service Notice: March 24, 2020
- Secret Passages: In the Fog but sailing towards the light March 24, 2020
- To aid coronavirus testing, Nancy Pelosi asks all Americans to send a stool sample to her office March 24, 2020
- Biden’s Comic Relief: I stole all of this from Neo at the NewNeo because I’m burnt out this afternoon March 23, 2020
- Havens is tracking his neighborhood in this edition of “The Perfect Vision Plague Diaries #6” March 23, 2020
- RTWT of the Day: VIPS — The Real Very Important People in America March 23, 2020
- The Burning of the New York Marine Hospital March 23, 2020
- The Dead Biden Sketch (Apologies to Monty Python) March 22, 2020
- Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep… March 22, 2020
- The Starbugs “Let me forget about today until tomorrow…” March 22, 2020
- Sail away with me to another world… March 21, 2020
- LinkApocalypse: Always a New Morning March 21, 2020
- Rant0matic: “Apocalypse Fatigue” or Why Won’t At-Risk Boomers Panic About the Wuhan Virus? March 20, 2020
- The “Century of China” is OVER! Bill Whittle has a few choice and frank words for China March 20, 2020
- Some Windex is More Equal than Others: Update on Windex as an emergency sanitizer March 20, 2020
- For the Beauty of the Earth March 19, 2020
- Boomer Anthems: All You Need Is Love [Because now more than ever] March 19, 2020
- Pat Condell: “The Chinese Communist Party is directly responsible for every death from the virus that they have inflicted on the world.” March 19, 2020
- The Olympic Peninsula at the Vernal Equinox [2014] March 19, 2020
- Something Wonderful: STELLA’S BEST LEAF JUMPS OF ALL TIME March 18, 2020
- Prayers for Remus March 18, 2020
- LinkApocalypse March 18, 2020
- We can succeed only by concert… We must disenthrall ourselves. March 18, 2020
- Cats and Dominos March 18, 2020
- No hand sanitizer? Take a tip from the Greeks and put some Windex on it. March 17, 2020
- Bill Whittle’s Rage: How to Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs March 17, 2020
- Poet and Essayist Andy Havens is Keeping a Journal on the State of Play in Seattle March 17, 2020
- The Gateway Pundit Reader Offers This Message of Hope – "You Are Good – Never, Ever Forget That!" March 17, 2020
- We need more anthems about ordinary heroes March 16, 2020
- Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Der Führerbunker March 16, 2020
- Cheers Knew How to Keep a Bar Open March 16, 2020
- Rant0matic: Slywyrd Screwtape Posts for Me March 16, 2020
- Just where did that dastardly Wuhan (That’s In China) flu get its start? March 16, 2020
- Sunday Morning Meditations: The Web Above Us March 15, 2020
- This Just In March 15, 2020
- Something Wonderful: Fanfare for the Common Man — Emerson, Lake and Palmer March 15, 2020
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